After a fight, the settlement of Shiyi had already been completely changed. Several tents had collapsed, and corpses were lying everywhere.
Brother Yaozi had several wounds on his body, some of which were so deep that the bones could be seen. They were bloody and very scary.
After waking up, Lao Bai tore off a lot of dirty rags from the corpse next to him, wrapped his head like a mummy, and then lay on the ground and vomited. He said that his headache seemed to be splitting. It was probably a concussion caused by a heavy blow to the head. It looked quite serious, but there was no way to see a doctor here, so he could only endure it.
This pair of brothers in distress rarely pinched each other. They leaned back to back and leaned against each other. Brother Yaozi took out the last cigarette he had treasured from his chest pocket. It was wrinkled and even stained with blood in some places. He and Lao Bai took turns to smoke it, and finally handed me the remaining cigarette butt.
I usually don't touch this stuff, but now that I have survived a disaster, I feel so upset that I took it and took a deep breath. I threw it away until the filter was burned. I felt a burning sensation in my lungs. Soon after, I fell dizzy beside Brother Yaozi, resting my head on his legs and closed my eyes.
In the pitch black, except for the sound of water, it was so quiet that I could even hear each other's breathing clearly. But it was the heavy breathing of the two rough men beside me that made me feel a long-lost peace, even... a sense of security. Listening to all the subtle sounds around me, I suddenly felt that the past twenty years I had lived were actually chaotic. It was only now that I understood the difference between being alive and being dead.
Zhang Xinya was probably the one who had the best physical strength among us. At this moment, he was cleaning up the corpses around him. One by one, Shi Yi was dragged into the stream beside him, and the stream stopped flowing. The soft shallows by the stream left obvious drag marks, and finally many fragmented bones were exposed.
These bones are obviously human bones, and more and more of them are emerging in front of us one after another, some of which have obvious tooth marks.
Through this, a tragic event forgotten in the long river of history has emerged in front of us.
It is certain that what the old woman told us was not all lies. In the war-torn era, a group of desperate people were driven into the mountains, and they never knew the change of seasons or the current year. At the beginning, there were still many of them, but unfortunately the material output in this underground cave was not enough to support so many people, and they kept falling one after another. So, by accident, some people ate black mustard seeds by mistake and turned into another kind of creature. The result of the rest of the people can be imagined.
The so-called people in troubled times are worse than dogs in peacetime, which is probably also vividly demonstrated.
Soon, this place was cleared and became our temporary base. Our physical condition did not allow us to continue walking, so we had to get a proper rest. Although this place was stained with too many resentful souls, the geographical conditions were still very good. The limestone columns hanging down from the cave almost circled this place, leaving only a few openings. There were streams guarding it all around. If there was any slight disturbance, we could see everything from a high place. It was an ideal base.
Unconsciously, I fell asleep with my head resting on Brother Yaozi's legs.
After using the Earth Spirit Pearl, I was extremely tired. Every inch of my body hurt. After lying down, I was too lazy to move even a finger.
As the saying goes, everything has a price.
But I didn't expect the price of using the Earth Spirit Pearl to be so heavy.
In my dream, I felt hot and cold, as if I was shuttling back and forth between the two extreme cold and hot hells of the underworld. When all this gradually subsided, there were waves of terrible stabbing pains on my face without any warning, as if thousands of silver needles were piercing every pore.
"Ah!!"
I screamed and woke up from my dream. I sat up immediately. The pain on my face became more and more severe, and the pain was spreading, causing pain in many parts of my body.
"Er Gouzi?!"
Zhang Xinya supported my shoulders and shook me hard, trying to wake me up.
After a moment, the terrible pain finally disappeared. It came quickly and went quickly, but the pain was unforgettable.
I gasped and realized that I was now in the state of a paper man, which meant that it should be night. I looked up and saw that Zhang Xinya and Lao Bai were all around me, with concern on their faces.
I hesitated for a moment and asked, "What happened to me?"
"Who knows?"
Lao Bai shook his head and said, "You have been sleeping for two whole days. No matter how we called you, you won't wake up. Mr. Zhang said that you overdrawn too much and can't be woken up. So we quietly stood beside you and watched you change from a ghost to a human, and from a human to a ghost... Well, and you have been running a fever. The temperature is scary. Your skin is red. It feels like you can fry an egg or something. You are sweating all over and talking in your sleep. Sometimes you say don't bite me, and sometimes you yell that you don't want to die. The most outrageous thing is that Xinya just sat next to you and was about to wipe your sweat, and you grabbed her wrist, just like Zhu Bajie teasing Chang'e, laughing so obscenely, and muttering about how your legs are so long. We all suspect that you are just pretending to be dead. This is not enough, there are even more outrageous things..."
Zhang Xinya kicked Lao Bai hard, and Lao Bai finally shut up and stopped talking. However, the little he had revealed was enough to make me feel ashamed.
I swear, I definitely didn't have any beautiful dreams, and the authenticity of this matter must be questioned.
"How do you feel now?!"
Zhang Xinya adjusted her hair and whispered, "Don't listen to Lao Bai's nonsense, but you are really not in the right state these two days."
I touched my face. In addition to feeling a little hot on my face, I felt surprisingly good after the pain disappeared, and my hands and feet were very strong.
"Really?"
Zhang Xinya's face was full of doubts, and then she took out her mobile phone. There was no signal in this place, and the mobile phone was always turned off. After she turned it on, she turned on the camera, and asked Lao Bai to turn on the miner's lamp, and then handed the mobile phone to me: "Look for yourself."
I was puzzled and took a look at the mobile phone through the front camera, and the whole person was struck by lightning.
My stiff and weird face in the camera was red, just like a red-hot iron, and there were many burnt black spots on my body.
"Before, these black spots were all red."
Lao Bai poked a black spot on my arm: "It's scary, just like it was on fire, I thought you were going to explode on the spot..."
This master's mouth was too mean, I was already panicking, and after he said that, I couldn't sit still anymore, and hurriedly got up and looked at my master.
My master has come back, and now he is sitting cross-legged on a high boulder, overlooking the outside, and the ancient sword is inserted next to him. He has a serious face and has been on guard all the time, and told me that I am starting to completely transform into a paper man.
Ghost makeup, painted on the ghost, the ghost wears human skin, is not afraid of the sun, and can harm people in broad daylight, but painted on a human, that is a living dead, half dead and half alive, alive during the day and dead at night.
Now, I am running towards death. The reason why I feel burning pain is that the Yang Qi in my body is resisting...
"But the time has not come yet!!"
I said anxiously: "Don't you say that it will take 49 days to become a dead person? But now there is still some distance to the deadline!"
"That's just normal. If someone keeps provoking and stimulating the Yin Qi in your body, the time it takes for you to completely become a paper man will be greatly reduced."
My master sighed, looked into the distance, and said only three words: "It's coming..."
It?
Who else could this it be! !
It must be the thing that harmed me! !
There are thousands of ways to paint ghost skin and thousands of ways to solve it. The only thing that can provoke this layer of ghost skin on my body is that thing.
"Don't worry, we'll wait for it here."
My master comforted me and said, "It came to you in such a hurry, I guess its owner couldn't wait any longer, there must be more hidden secrets behind it that we don't know, so I think they are the ones who are really anxious, so why not make a break with them here!"